442 [Proc. B.N.F.O., 



sequently learned were known to Mr. Stewart. The third is in 

 the Graymount demesne, close to- the Antrim, Road, no record 

 of which appears hitherto to have been made. The Adder's 

 Tongue Fern, Ophioglossum vulgatum, I found in abundance in 

 a field at Greenmount, Antrim. 



My County Down notes contain scarcely any record of im- 

 portance, save such as have already been noted by other work- 

 ers. The Sea Purslane, Atriplex portulacoides, I found in con- 

 siderable quantity on the shore half a mile south of Portaferry. 



I wish, in conclusion, to record my thanks to Mr. S. A. 

 Stewart for his ever-ready help in identifying specimens, and 

 supplying valuable information. 



The regular monthly meeting of the Club was held in the 

 Museum, College Square North, on the loth April, 1906, the 

 chair being occupied by the Vice-President (Mr. Robert Patter- 

 son, M.R.I.A.). 



Mr. Wm. Gray, M.R.I.A,, read his "Report as Delegate to 

 the British Association, with Suggestions as to- how the Club 

 may forward the Objects of the Association." In the course 

 of his remarks, Mr. Gray stated that the conference was held 

 in the rooms of the Linnean Society, Burlington House, and 

 was opened by the reading of the report of the Corresponding 

 (Societies' Committee, which stated that the suggestion of 

 Principal Griffith at the Cambridge Conference was approved 

 by the Committee of the British Association ; henceforth, there- 

 fore, there would be two classes of local societies eligible for 

 relationship with the British- Association. The societies, like 

 the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club, now known as "Associated 

 Societies," would in future be called "Affiliated Societies," and 

 would consist, as at present, of such societies as undertake local 

 scientific investigation and publish the results. Each affiliated 

 society might be represented at the meetings of the British 

 Association by a delegate, who' must be a member of the 

 Association, and who would be for the time being a member of 



